Kate did not look at Jared but kept her eyes on the scene outside as she spoke up in a calm voice. She heard Jared’s joyful voice ring out, “Sure. Katie, I won’t let you down and I’ll definitely bring happiness to you. I promise that I’ll not let you shed a single tear.”
She grunted her approval. Whatever. At least one of us is happy here. He continued, “You should know that I don’t have much dating experience. So from now on, you can supervise me and remind me if I’ve done anything wrong. I’ll definitely mend my ways and learn the right way.” In response, Kate said, “I don’t either, so let’s just learn from each other.”
“Okay.” As Jared spoke, he attempted to hold her hand. However, Kate instinctively withdrew her hand but soon realized that she was now his girlfriend. Therefore, she tried her best to tolerate it as his hands grasped hers firmly. At that moment, she felt as if her heart was in her mouth and she remained frozen in place out of anxiety. He smiled. “Relax there, my darling girlfriend.”
Nodding, she tried really hard to slowly relax. However, she remained rather apprehensive about everything and somehow wished fervently to reach home as soon as possible. She was keen to burrow herself in her tiny little home.
She knew that she was not in her right state of mind right now, but she could clearly remember everything that had happened earlier. Everything.
On the other hand, Olivia, who had been hospitalized for two days, finally returned to Muse Peninsula after being discharged. Eugene had to take care of her every day while at the same time, he spared his schedule to visit Penny at her house.
Penny’s house was not too far from town and it was a smaller-sized mansion. There were men standing guard at the main gates as well as the entrance to the house. As soon as the bodyguard saw Eugene approach, the man instantly greeted him respectfully, “Good day, President Nolan!”
Eugene stopped in his tracks and took a look at the mansion before asking, “How’s she doing?” The bodyguard had an aggrieved look on his face as he responded, “She has been smashing things in the house while cursing out people. I just went inside to bring Young Lady Penny some food, but she threw a thermos flask that was full of hot water at me.”
Instantly, Eugene glanced at the bodyguard’s hand, which was red and blistered from the burn. “Has the doctor taken a look at your hand?” he inquired out of concern.
Flattered, the bodyguard quickly replied, “No, no! I’m fine. I’ve put on some ointment earlier.” Eugene nodded before heading into the mansion. The bodyguard then reminded him kindly, “Please take extra precaution, President Nolan.”
Eugene affirmed before taking a deep breath. He could understand Penny’s current turbulent emotions, but he had no way of changing a thing. He could not release Lara and neither could he forgive her for the matter. Of course though, Lara would never see eye-to-eye with him about all this.
When a matter was unrelated to one, one could definitely comment on it without any regard as it had nothing to do with them. However, if the matter involved someone close, then the right or wrong of things no longer mattered to them. Humans were prone to side with the people they were close with regardless of the situation. This was an inherent flaw commonly seen in humans and he was no different.
Before Eugene even entered the house, he could already hear Penny yelling from her room. “You guys think that you can lord over me under Eugene’s instructions, huh? Does he think that he’s the king?! Does he think that he can just hold a person captive on a whim and sue a person in court just like that?
I’m warning you guys, you’d better make sure that you can keep me captive forever because otherwise, once I get out of here, the first thing that I’ll do is to fire all of you! No, actually, the first thing that I’m going to do would be to give you all a beating! I’ll make sure that you won’t be able to survive in this business…”
Subsequently, there was a loud crash of broken glass echoing through the house. The bodyguards standing by the entrance shot. a resigned look at Eugene. At that moment, they seriously reckoned that the person inside was not Penny but a patient with psychiatric issues. Actually, no! A psychiatric patient would at least take a breather, but she has been going at it continuously without even taking a break!
Eugene’s expression darkened as he spoke, “Open the door!” The two bodyguards acknowledged his words and keyed in the password to unlock the door.
As soon as the door was opened, a porcelain vase came hurtling from the inside. “Get the heck out of my house!” Penny hollered.
